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- The Olive Hut on the east edge of the Catamount Glacier in British Columbia, Canada.Laguna Khotia in Bolivia's Cordillera RealLunch time view in a valley in northern PatagoniaBruny Island Tasmania fur seals chillin' on the rocksThe boathouse on Dove Lake Tasmania - Cradle Mtn in the backgroundOur Icelandic Sheepdog Viggo on the banks of Toronto's Don River on a December morningBallooning over the plains of Pagan in Burma (aka Bagan, Myanmar)The head of the 40' (13 m) tall standing Aukana Buddha in Sri LankaPilgrims approach a shrine room in AnuradhapuraStreet scene on a Morning Stroll Through Mandalay’s Zay Cho Market AreaDambulla, Sri Lanka - detail of seated Buddha in Cave 1.Toronto City Hall in DecemberLooking into Adventure Bay from The Neck - Bruny Island, TasmaniaA memorable campsite in Bolivia's Cordillera RealMonte Fitz Roy from the road to El ChaltenPaddling at dusk on the Grayson River in Wabakimi country in northwest Ontario, CanadaOjibwe pictographs at the Artery Lake site in Ontario's Woodland Caribou ParkColombo's National Museum entrance with seated BuddhaThe Towers at Torres del Paine in Chilean PatagoniaMount Everest seen from Kala Pathar
- The Olive Hut on the east edge of the Catamount Glacier in British Columbia, Canada.Laguna Khotia in Bolivia's Cordillera RealLunch time view in a valley in northern PatagoniaBruny Island Tasmania fur seals chillin' on the rocksThe boathouse on Dove Lake Tasmania - Cradle Mtn in the backgroundOur Icelandic Sheepdog Viggo on the banks of Toronto's Don River on a December morningBallooning over the plains of Pagan in Burma (aka Bagan, Myanmar)The head of the 40' (13 m) tall standing Aukana Buddha in Sri LankaPilgrims approach a shrine room in AnuradhapuraStreet scene on a Morning Stroll Through Mandalay’s Zay Cho Market AreaDambulla, Sri Lanka - detail of seated Buddha in Cave 1.Toronto City Hall in DecemberLooking into Adventure Bay from The Neck - Bruny Island, TasmaniaA memorable campsite in Bolivia's Cordillera RealMonte Fitz Roy from the road to El ChaltenPaddling at dusk on the Grayson River in Wabakimi country in northwest Ontario, CanadaOjibwe pictographs at the Artery Lake site in Ontario's Woodland Caribou ParkColombo's National Museum entrance with seated BuddhaThe Towers at Torres del Paine in Chilean PatagoniaMount Everest seen from Kala Pathar
Category Archives: Anishinaabek World
Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Days 6 & 7 – To Pickerel Bay and Down Fox Creek to Georgian Bay
Previous Post: Day 5 – From E of Cross I. to Below Recollet Falls (CS522) Day 6 – The Lower French From CS 522 To Pickerel Bay (CS 633) distance: 12 km time: 9:00 a.m. to 11:40 p.m. portages/rapids: 0/1: Second … Continue reading
Posted in Anishinaabek World, Georgian Bay, Pictographs of the Canadian Shield, wilderness canoe tripping
Tagged best french river campsite, Fox Creek French River Delta, Fox Creek portages, French River pictographs, Little Flat Rapids French River, Pickerel Bay campsite French River, Second Rapids French River
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Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Day 4 – Down The Five Mile Rapids Section of the Upper French River
Previous Post: Day 3 – From Canoe Pass To below Portage Dam Day 4 – Along Eighteen Mile Island From CS304 To CS 419 distance: 21 km time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. portages/rapids: 2/7 weather: sunny all day, light wind from … Continue reading
Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Day 3 – From Canoe Pass To Below The Portage Channel Dam
Previous Post: Day 2 – Lafleche Point to South of Canoe Pass Day 3 – From Canoe Pass to Below Portage Channel Dam distance: 27 km time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. portages/rapids: 1/0: ~570 m (FoFR says 600m), around the channel cut, … Continue reading
Posted in Anishinaabek World, Georgian Bay, Pictographs of the Canadian Shield, wilderness canoe tripping
Tagged Big Chaudiere Dam, Cradle Rapids French River, Gibraltar Point French River, Gibraltar Point rock painting pictograph, Kennedy Island Pictographs, Lake Nipissing Outlet dams, Little Chaudiere Dam, Portage Channel Dam, Portage Channel Hydro Dam
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From Lake Nipigon’s Echo Rock To Waweig Lake
Previous Post: Canoeing Lake Nipigon From Windigo Bay To Echo Rock Day 10 – Echo Rock to the H B C Post (Nipigon House) distance: 7 km (include backtracking) actually moved forward about 3.3 km time: 9:15 a.m to 11:25 a.m. portages/rapids/liftover-line: 0/0/0 weather: overcast; … Continue reading
Down The Pikitigushi River From Cliff Lake To Lake Nipigon – Days 2 & 3
Previous Post: Down The Pikitigushi River From Cliff Lake To Lake Nipigon – Logistics, Maps and Day 1 – Cliff Lake Day 2 – From Cliff Lake to Ratte Lake distance: 10.5 km time: 9 a.m to 4 p.m.; checked out all pictograph … Continue reading
Down The Pikitigushi From Cliff Lake To Lake Nipigon: Logistics. Maps and Day 1 – Cliff Lake
Related Posts: Canoeing From The Pikitigushi’s Cliff Lake to Echo Rock on Lake Nipigon … a summary of our trip with lots of pix It was back in 2013 that my brother Max and I first paddled into Cliff Lake. It was … Continue reading
Anishinaabeg Beadwork & Painting Exhibit At The Royal Ontario Museum
I should have gone in June or July! The Royal Ontario Museum hosted an exhibit (June 17 to November 19, 2017) titled Anishinaabeg: Art and Power which recently closed. Sad to say, I forgot all about it until the day before … Continue reading
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The Peterborough Petroglyphs: Building Over An Ancient Algonquian Ritual Site
Previous Post: Peterborough’s The Canadian Canoe Museum – Journey Into An Epic Past N.B. The term Algonquian (also spelled Algonkian) refers to one of North America’s largest indigenous language families. Individual tribes or First Nations like the Innu, the Micmac, the Algonquin, the Ojibwe, … Continue reading
Posted in Anishinaabek World, Pictographs of the Canadian Shield
Tagged Curve Lake First nation Petroglyphs, Joan Vastokas, Peterboro Petroglyphs, Peterboro rock carvings, Peterborough Pictographs, Peterborough rock art, Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Teaching Rocks review, Upper Stony Lake Petroglyphs
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Anishinaabe Pictograph Sites Of The Canadian Shield
The Canadian Shield (aka the Pre-Cambrian or Laurentian Shield) makes up more than half of Canada’s land mass. (It also includes Greenland, the Adirondacks of New York State, as well as the northern parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota). It … Continue reading
Posted in Anishinaabek World, Pictographs of the Canadian Shield, wilderness canoe tripping
Tagged aboriginal rock art, Anishinaabeg art, art ruprestre du bouclier canadien, canadian shield pictographs, Grace Rajnovtich, Indian pictograph locations, indian rock paintings, Selwyn Dewdney and Indian rock paintings, Thor Conway pictographs
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